Jack Bennett
DevOps Engineer at Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions
Illogan Highway, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJack Bennett is a DevOps Engineer with 12 years of experience building developer infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, currently focused on Dev Infrastructure at Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions. He brings practical hands-on expertise in Kubernetes-based continuous delivery, automation, and developer tooling from roles at Engineered Arts where he supported a Tritium platform and internal ERP. An active open-source contributor, Jack improved build automation for the popular cmder Windows console emulator by enhancing its PowerShell build script, dependency handling, and developer-facing command-line options. He combines a background in frontend and platform development with operations skills, making him comfortable bridging developer workflows and production reliability. Based in Illogan Highway, England, Jack is reachable via GitHub/Twitter @CoolOffBennett for repository discussions. A detail often overlooked: he has applied error-handling and archive-optimization improvements to simplify complex Windows build processes, reflecting a focus on developer ergonomics as well as stability.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
powershell10
automation10
automations10
cmder10
7zip10
build-automation10
msbuild9
command-line9
windows8
cpp4
cplus4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cmderdev/cmder
Feb 2014 - Oct 2017
Lovely console emulator package for Windows
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 44 commits, 29 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jack primarily contributed to the automation and build processes of the Cmder project. They focused on modifying the build script (`build.ps1`) using PowerShell, integrating tools like 7-zip and MSBuild, and streamlining the dependency management workflow. Key contributions include improving error handling, optimizing archive extraction, and implementing command-line options for developers, such as a `-Compile` switch. These changes aimed to simplify the build process and make it easier for developers to build the project.
minttyemulatorssh-agentwindowsconsole
Jackbennett/ps-util
Oct 2013 - Feb 2020
Contributions:155 commits, 44 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 5 months
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